Today, we celebrate the 238th anniversary of the publication of the very first essay in The Federalist Papers. Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist No. 1 from Oct. 27, 1787, marks the start of a seminal ...

“Journalists from nearly every major U.S. news outlet, including The Washington Post, turned in their press badges Wednesday after refusing to adhere to the new rules for reporters at the Pentagon.

The imposition of the will of current politicians over those who may disagree with them is doomed to fail. And, that’s not my view but rather it’s the view of one of the founding Federalists. We live ...

During the 2016 presidential election campaign, candidate Donald Trump took the unprecedented move of releasing a list of his potential Supreme Court nominees. But Trump didn’t assemble this list ...

Or that the CIT panel’s sole Trump appointee, far from being a Federalist Society creature, is a lifelong Democrat—that court’s governing statute requires partisan balance—who had previously been a ...

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During consideration of the Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law by President Trump last month, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) inserted a measure that would have discouraged state-level regulation of ...

In a June 29 commentary — “ ‘No Kings’ but for the kingly presidents we’ve already had?” — John C. “Chuck” Chalberg is tilting at windmills. The flaws in the piece are many; the two major ones are a ...

In the early-morning hours of April 19, 2025, the Supreme Court issued a highly unusual order. Released at 12:56 a.m., it covered only half a page; it was unsigned; and it dealt a blow to the Trump ...